Press Clippings: Technology in Popular Culture

The initial listing of news on how technology is used by consumers or in popular media culled from a variety of sources we monitor on a regular basis.

We'd love to see your clippings here as well! Please use the edit this page button to add more, or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have done here by typing 4 tilde (~) characters-- - alanJan 27, 2010. This will help us to sift through the articles and determine which ones resonate most strongly with the board as a whole.

How Social Media is Radically Changing the Newsroomhttp://mashable.com/2009/06/08/social-media-newsroom/
Social networking sites are some of the newest tools for reporters to use in news gathering, networking and promoting their work. But many newsrooms are fuzzy on the usage.- LarryJan 30, 2010

GizaPage: All Your Social Profiles Side By Sidehttp://mashable.com/2009/05/12/gizapage/
With GizaPage, users start by importing their contacts from LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Plaxo, Hotmail, Lycos, Orkut, or Rediff Mail. This makes it easy to connect if these contacts join GizaPage at a later date.- GavinFeb 7, 2010

Most Popular Tourist Sites: Flickr’s Geo-tagged Photos Findingshttp://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/?p=1148
Billions of photos have been uploaded to the internet, and by that are considered a valuable source for data mining. Many of the photos are tagged with text descriptions to allow search. Information on popular cameras can easily be obtained. But even more exciting is the geo-information which specifies the specific world location of the photo taken.

Obama Family Portrait Posted to Flickrhttp://mashable.com/2009/10/23/obama-family-portrait/
The official Obama family portrait, posted to Flickr () on Thursday. The photo is part of the White House Flickr stream, which includes hundreds of sets from the President’s day-to-day engagements around the world.